

“For the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute”
A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...
Director
Mikhail Romm
Writers
Mikhail Romm
Release Date
September 15, 1934
Runtime
1h 4m
Status
Released
Original Language
ru
Vote Count
18
